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Manufacturer: BT
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: BT
EAN: 5016351611814
Feature: Phones: Cordless Phones: DECT Phones
Label: BT
Manufacturer: BT
Model: 034593
Publisher: BT
Release Date: 2007-09-18
Studio: BT
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Phones: Cordless Phones: DECT Phones
Studio 3500 Twin DECT Answering Machine
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Summary: Not fit for purpose - bitterly disappointing
Comment: Looks like a good value package. It ain't.
I bought the two handset package. Set-up is easy enough and the digital answer machine is actually pretty good so far as recorded quality goes.
But the devil is in the detail. Speech quality on the handsets is variable - some times good, but many times virtually unusable. My old DECT phone (also a BT product) was far superior.
What really irritates is that the time and date stored on the phone keeps changing unpredictably. Today is Tuesday 2nd September and I just reset the time again to be 21:39. I poll the base station answering machine to check it has the right time. It tells me it is Sunday and the time is now . Why does it tell me it is Sunday? Answer: because the 'set-date' function only takes day and month but no year. The year seems to be assumed as 2001 or perhaps 2007. Does it matter? Well, when you have been away and the answering machine says the message was left on Friday at 22:30 I'd like to think that was right. But fact is I cannot trust it to know the right time, and I cannot set the full date so it gets it wrong time and time again.
This product has fundamental design flaws and is dismally unreliable. The answer machine date / time function is useless and dates entered get translated into a day of the week instead of being rendered as (say) "2nd September" which would actually be a lot more useful and less problematic. Voice quality is unpredictable and with no means to fix it.
I'm seriously thinking of returning this product for a full refund on the grounds it is not fit for purpose.
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BT STUDIO 3500 DECT TELEPHONE TWIN GREY
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